That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different ...periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Man with lantern: Who are you?Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted ha...rbor.Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come.Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog?Man with lantern: Sure, we've got gold, fountains of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Dizzy: Say, don't you think about anything but flying? When did the bug first bite you?Tommy: You remember the day Lindy cam...e back from Paris?... I was only a kid, but I'll never forget it. They wrote "Welcome Home" with smoke across the sky and signed it QB.... I didn't even know what QB meant. Then someone told me about the quiet burglar. Old pilots joining together to help the flying game. I loved that. They seemed apart from ordinary people.Dizzy: Oh they were. That, that first QB hanger was a great place. Each pilot had his own drinking mug, and whenever one got bumped off, they put the mug on the shelf over the bar, bottom up, and your first drink was always a silent toast to the shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A few days ago, while seated snugly in an airplane seat on my way back to New York from Chicago,... it occurred to me that a rathe...r striking similarity existed between the situation I found myself in then, flying in a modern airplane, and what I've often felt as I watch television. To begin with, both experiences are largely passive, or at any rate they have been transformed into passive experiences. But this shared passivity is itself more complicated than it seems, for though it produces in both cases an obvious condition of quiet and inactivity, it also demands from the passenger or viewer a very definite emotional commitment. One might call it a commitment to specifically nonaggressive and uninvolved behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He was last seen flying to New York.He was handing out cards which read:..."He wears a question in his left eye.He dislikes the police but will associate with them.He will demand something not on the menu.He is invisible to the eyes of beauty and culture...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Then it doesn'tMatter that the deaths come in the wrong order. All has been so easily...Written about. And you find the right order after all: play, the streets, shopping, time flying.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their f...ox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »